Books

FIRST EDITION, pp. 46, crown 8vo, original purple cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, bottom corner of upper board slightly pushed, contemporary gift inscription to flyleaf (beneath inscription from the author, see below), dustjacket with very shallow chipping at tips of slightly darkened backstrip panel, very good. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'Inscribed for Mary Atkinson with best wishes from Philip Larkin, 7.iii.64'. The recipient has inscribed the book to her mother beneath. (Bloomfield A7a).

'The Whitsun Weddings' is a collection of 32 poems by Philip Larkin, published in 1964. It includes themes of English life and themes of time, love, and death.